Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

Air to Ground Message:

BIOHAZARD KIT USED

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Type: Airbus A321
A: #ac789e40b05
F: #f49850c23ce

A Cactus in Court • The Revelator Illegal trade in rare ornamental plants is booming — fueled by weak enforcement and a changing climate. But the theft of 1,000 cacti from the Chilean desert has led to a landmark court case in Italy.

A Cactus in Court

@romangoergen.bsky.social reports on the wild world of cactus trafficking -- today on @therevelator.org therevelator.org/a-cactus-in-...

An open aquaculture holding tank filled with giant clams. The Pacific Ocean is visible in the background

Multiple colourful giant clans in a tank

Some humongous giant clams jn a tank

More multiple giant clams in a tank

Iakwe from the Marshall Islands! Today we visited the giant clam farm on Majuro. Swipe to see how colourful these beauties are! 😍🤩🥰

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Got to test the voice recognition seat this evening with @recaro-as.bsky.social.

A couple things:
1) It works
2) Only for biz class
3) Maybe not why it was originally built, but it has real value for accessibility considerations.

#paxex #aix2026

A female hummingbird sits in her nest.

Kitchen Hummingbird Nest, Day 5. She looks ultra comfy sitting in her nest, presumably keeping eggs warm. We're getting rain tomorrow, she'll be busy, I'm sure! #birds #hummingbirds

I'm pretty sure this is her - keeping a careful eye on her nest from a branch several feet away.

A hummingbird nest in an avacado tree.

Kitchen Humminbird Nest, Day 4. She's spending a lot of her time away from her nest - could she have laid an egg already? They tend not to incubate until a second egg is laid. #birds #hummingbirds

A female hummingbird works on the soft lining of her nest.

Kitchen Hummingbird Nest, Day 3. She's been bringing bits of fluff back, presumably to make her nest ultra comfy. We are having rain the next few days, so hopefully her nest will survive! She added a leaf into the nest - it'll catch wind, I'm not sure it was a good idea! #birds #hummingbirds

A female hummingbird in her nest sorting out spiderwebs she's using to pad the inside.

Kitchen Hummingbird Nest, Day 2. She's made a lot of progress on her nest in a single day! She also fixed her bad-feather day she was having yesterday. We need a name for this pretty lady! #birds #hummingbird

A female hummingbird working on her nest. Her beak is buried in the spider webbing she's using to build it.

Kitchen Hummingbird Nest watch, day 1. She's hard at work on her nest - it's really interesting watching her weave it together with the spider web she collects. #hummingbirds #birds

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Elected Republicans share the blame with Trump. Republican members of Congress can stop this any time they want. It's worse now than if they had stopped it earlier, but it will be even worse later.

They feel no obligation to the country or their fellow citizens. I can't help but marvel at that.

What is The Golden Girls were Warhammer 40K Sisters of Battle? Sofia in particular is gonna do some exterminatus.

I know I've seen it before, but the Golden Sisters of Battle still spark joy.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

Breaking News!
Code UFB!

Global sea surface temperatures continue breaking daily records, with Mar. 23 having a preliminary SST of 21.141°C, ahead of the previous daily record of 21.118°C set in 2024.

This graph shows how fast SSTs are rising compared to pre-2023 temperatures.

Say it again for the people pretending not to hear:
you don’t get to blame ghosts of presidents past.

There is only one president right now and this is his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mess. 👇

What abomination is this? 🤣

Aging may feel gradual… but what if it’s not?
In our recent paper, we tracked fish continuously from puberty until death.
This gave us a unique view of how aging unfolds across the adult lifespan.
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Ollie Ballinger has an open source Google Earth Engine workflow for detecting building damage in Iran based on Sentinel-1 radar data. "Open access battle damage detection via Pixel-Wise T-Test on Sentinel-1 imagery"

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

I'm feeling a need to share realities this morning. Here's one, in case you didn't see it yesterday.

FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.

ABC News: "The FBI warned police departments in California in recent days that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast"

@schiff.senate.gov where is the 20 billion that trump is using as shipping insurance coming from? Why can we afford that but not school lunches/healthcare/etc?

It'll never happen.

Grateful that my optioned spec was renewed for a fourth year. That said, now is a good time to remind everyone that Hollywood moves at the speed of molasses.

GPSJAM GPS/GNSS Interference Map Map showing possible GPS interference around 43.039, 33.924 on 2026-03-02.

I've added a new base map layer to GPSJAM, with labels in English. Powered by @openfreemap.org. More -> Map -> OpenFreeMap (English).
gpsjam.org?lat=43.03880...

Haven't the people who take care of audio in these ever heard of a reverb removal filter?